Wishing you all a happy Christmas
And this is the picture on the Christmas card I physically gave to just a few of my close friends. It looks a little better on-line as I was having printer problems when I had to produce it.
I’m not actually writing this on Christmas Day, as I’ll be too busy, but I’ll schedule this to be published. It’s one of the few days in the year I usually go to church – for years Sunday was always a day for taking photographs, and it still is at times. But we’ll have something of a family day and I’ll be helping getting dinner ready for it and then relaxing afterwards.
The advantage of an online greeting is that you can see a few more of the pictures I took when I chanced to come across this year’s Santacon in London.
Of course I knew that Santacon was taking place, but hadn’t bothered to find the places and times, and just happened to walk down one of the right streets at the right time, intending to get on a bus on my journey home.
There were elves as well as Santas, and the occasional reindeer.
and music and dancing. We do the music at home at Christmas, but I don’t think our rooms are large enough for much dancing.
Although I don’t much like using flash it adds something to the interaction with people in pictures like this, though it also needs quite a lot of work – burning and dodging – to even out the light, particularly when scenes includ people very clost and at a distance from the flash.
I stayed working with the santas as they made their way from High Holborn down to Trafalgar Square, with rather a lot of stops for dancing and crowding around cars and other harmless fun. You can see many more pictures on My London Diary at London flooded with Santas.
Again I’ll wish you all Happy Christmas!
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